Last from us -- any juicy hints you want to leave as to what to expect from Marvel going forward the Saturday and Sunday of New York Comic Con? With both "Cup O' Joe" and "Axel-In-Charge" panels on the schedule, it looks to likely be a newsworthy show.

Alonso: We have lots of big announcements. At Saturday's Cup O' Joe Panel, which is an NYCC classic, there's going to be at least one out-of-this-world announcement. Sunday's AIC panel will announce two new ongoing series, and feature panelists James Robinson, Charles Soule, Kieron Gillen, G. Willow Wilson, Gerry Duggan, Nick Spencer, Phil Noto, Ales Kot and a very special mystery guest. And fans won't want to miss Sunday's Women of Marvel panel either where we'll announce another exciting new series featuring a female hero whose Q-rating is off the stratosphere these days, written by a writer that I'm over the moon to be working with.

Panel started right with an announcement: "The Black Vortex," a new cosmic event uniting "The Legendary Star-Lord," "Guardians of the Galaxy," "Captain Marvel," "Nova," "All-New -Men" and "Cyclops." It starts with an "Alpha" issue in February 2015.

"It's bringing the Guardians and the X-Men together," Humphries said, informing the crowd that the Black Vortex is an ancient Marvel artifact. "What the Black Vortex can do is unlock the cosmic potential inside anyone."

"Joe, you play the guitar, right?" Humphries asked Qu If Joe met the Black Vortex, he could play like Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix and George Harrison all at once." Humphries explained that the effect is similar to Norrin Radd becoming the Silver Surfer or Jean Grey becoming the Dark Phoenix, due to the potential for both "power and destruction." The characters will be tested as to whether or not they will "submit" to the Black Vortex.

"It's a huge event, guys," Marts added. "It's months in the making. We've got two bookends to it, an Alpha and an Omega issue drawn by the great Ed McGuinness. We've got all the X-Men involved, all of the Guardians. We travel to every corner of the galaxy."

Perhaps that's why there's no x-men around this time as they're all (all the popular ones) off world? And maybe this Black Vortex turns them into Inhumans or just something non-mutant?